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Helping Avoid the Delayed Results of Head Trauma

Updated Feb. 7, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

Your article "Studies Cite Head Injuries as Factor in Some Social Ills" (page one, Jan. 29) is an excellent primer on brain injury and the attendant neurobehavioral issues. The seriousness of a brain injury can't be overstated. Its negative neurobehavioral effects can present long after the brain injury occurs and be lifelong.

Mounting empirical evidence suggests that the impacts of severe cognitive changes are major contributors to the broader problems of crime, homelessness, substance abuse, unemployment and...